Chapter 28: The Origin of the Drought Fish

After getting up, Lin Mo did not forget to look for the information of the drought, came to the storage room, and opened the dusty box on the far right, which was stacked with the records of the mirror master about all kinds of gods and ghosts, and some other classics about this aspect.

The rain god recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is called Ying Long, and its counterpart is the god of drought, called the female lu, Ying Long and the female lu were also introduced into the battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, and there are many records in the Great Wilderness North Classic.

After this battle, Ying Long and Drought established Qixun, but they also lost their divine power and could never return to the sky. Ying Long stayed in the south of the world, and since then the south has been full of water and rain. Lu stayed in the north, and since then the north has been arid, and wherever she goes, she has been cursed and expelled by the people, called "Drought Fish".

"The Divine Mystery Sutra: The Southern Wilderness Sutra" cloud: "There are people in the south, two or three feet long, with their bodies and eyes on the top, walking like the wind", "The country is in great drought." A lattice, among the people of the city of good deeds, those who meet it are thrown into the toilet and die, and the drought is gone. ”

"Saying": "Lu, drought ghosts also." ”

"The Book of Songs" Kong Shu quoted the "Divine Sutra": "There are people in the south, two or three feet long, with their bodies and eyes on the top, walking like the wind, and their names are called Lu. The country I saw was in great drought, and the land was thousands of miles away. A dry mother. ”

Yuan Mei's "Continuation of the Son's Silence" also said: "The corpse becomes a drought at the beginning, and then it becomes a revil." ”

From the pre-Qin to the Han Dynasty, the image of the drought is represented by the image of the Heavenly Maiden, whose image is characterized by a woman dressed in green clothes. During this period, the drought fish had the dual identity of gods and monsters, and people regarded it as a drought god, but they expelled it by means of sun exposure, flooding, tiger food, etc., in order to achieve the purpose of driving away drought and asking for rain.

From the mid-to-late Han Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty, the drought in the image of the Heavenly Maiden gradually transitioned to another type of drought in the image of a little ghost. The reason for this change is that the worship of natural gods that prevailed in the pre-Qin period gradually declined in the Han Dynasty, and the divine aspect of the drought was gradually denied, and the identity of women was questioned, and her image gradually turned to a more evil face.

Chinese folklore has it that during the time of Song Zhenzong, the drought was strange and the water of the salt pond was exhausted. Zhenzong turned to Zhang Tianshi for help, and Tianshi sent Guan Yu to subdue. Guan Yu fought hard for seven days and subdued the demon. Zhenzong felt his divine power and was named "King of Righteousness and Bravery". This day happens to be the thirteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and the people will hold a temple fair for Emperor Guan on this day, praying for Emperor Guan to appear to eliminate disasters and rain down, and call this day the rain festival. And think that it will rain on the day, the so-called "drought but May 13", if it does not rain, then ask for the emperor will be fulfilled.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the drought of the little ghost image gradually evolved to the drought of the zombie image, and was gradually replaced by the drought of the zombie image. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the theory of drought and drought appeared.

The folklore recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" says that every time there is a drought, people will dig out the new burial mounds, drag out the corpses, and mutilate their limbs, which is called "beating the dry bone pile". Although the Ming Dynasty ordered a ban on this wind, until the Qing Dynasty, this wind was still very popular among the people, and it developed from "beating dry bone piles" to burning bones.

The legend can't be believed, but for people like Lin Mo, it can't be believed, every flower and grass has a provenance, and every drink and peck are all fixed, but no matter where it comes from, the drought is identified as a monster that will cause a large amount of water to evaporate and the land is dry, which is very inconsistent with the current situation, but the breath stored in the thermos cup mirror has a very hot feeling, Lin Mo doesn't think he is wrong.

There are four zombie kings in the legend, namely Ying Gou, Hou Qing, Drought Fish, and Generals, Ying Gou is the first zombie king in heaven and earth, he and Hou Qing were both generals under the Yellow Emperor, and after death, they fused with the soul of the roar to form a zombie, and the legend of Ying Gou went to the Yellow Spring Styx.

Hou Qing became a zombie and then looked for revenge on the Yellow Emperor, but to no avail, he cursed the surrounding corpses with his soul, so the curse became a zombie and Hou Qing had a lot to do with it.

Drought Fish, formerly known as the female Fish, was originally the daughter of the Yellow Emperor, under the serious illness was roared part of the soul invaded the body, forcibly fused three souls and seven spirits, and then the body changed, the hair turned from white to black, the skin was dry and the water was lost, the body was extremely hot, and the water was steamed dry in a radius of ten miles around it, and the land was in great drought, and was expelled and exiled to the north by the Yellow Emperor.

The general is the only blood-sucking zombie, which is formed by the fusion of the roaring soul and the branches of the god tree, and most of the zombies that can be seen in later generations are the descendants of the general.

But they are also zombie kings, although the other few are not like the generals and grandchildren, but they also have their own means, and the impact that their breath can cause should not be underestimated, just like this time, just a wisp of breath can make a person who has just died for less than a week undergo a corpse, although it did not cause any impact, but it is too coincidental to appear at the scene of death, Lin Mo has some suspicions that someone is manipulating this matter behind, and the murderer in this case may have something to do with this matter.

And there may be a drought here, this matter will definitely not be only discovered by Lin Mo himself, the drought fish has been born many times since ancient times, some people have artificial, there are accidents, but in the end they were sealed or expelled, the only thing that can be determined is that the drought fish has not disappeared, many of the drought fish that appear are done by female fish, the purpose is to explore the strength of the yin and yang monks in the world, and act more cautiously every time, so Lin Mo suspects that this drought will really be born, the thousand-year layout is not small, and the cause and effect here are even more chaotic.

Lin Mo knew that Zhang Bin had not investigated anything from the matter of the Western Suburbs Club, and the people involved were just small fish pushed out by those behind the scenes, which was not worth mentioning, but more importantly, Lin Mo was not suitable for himself to be involved in too big a matter now, because the Midyear Festival was approaching, and that day was an important day for Lin Mo and the mirror master.

The mirror of the world will be opened on that day, and the real mirror master will also appear in this world, and it is undecided whether he will be dragged into the boundless vortex by the world, or become a promoter of this vortex.

So Lin Mo didn't help Zhang Bin deal with this matter precisely for this reason, Lin Mo actually regretted agreeing to Zhang Ningxi's cause and effect, if Zhang Ningxi didn't let Lin Mo end this cause and effect before the Midyear Festival, then Lin Mo would be in big trouble.

However, Lin Mo didn't have a hot head and agreed to send out a period of cause and effect, impulsiveness is not the style of salted fish, he has already seen that Zhang Ningxi has a period of cause and effect that is fermenting, and the impact will be shown in the near future, although he doesn't know what the specific thing is, but Lin Mo has already determined that the incident will be related to yin and yang, Lin Mo's cause and effect line has been implicated in that incident, if the time is too late, Lin Mo can use some means to understand this cause and effect in advance.

"Nulu, did you set up this game yourself, or did you also mean that you were also a pawn in this game without realizing it?"

Lin Mo looked up at the window, the sky in Fengcheng was gloomy, and the streets were no longer noisy in the past, the usually lively antique street also lacked vitality at this time, calm like a pool of stagnant water, those ordinary people who were running around for life would not know the possible changes on this yin and yang road at all, they only knew that it might be raining, bring an umbrella, and they could already solve all the problems they were about to encounter, even if they forgot to bring it, they would be drenched in the rain at most, and they could solve most of the problems by taking a hot shower at home, in case they caught a cold, It's just an injection and a medicine.

Then one day, the tiger's body was shocked, he threw away the medicine bottle, pulled out the needle, and yelled that I Hu Hansan was back again, and continued to devote himself to the unchanged life of the past. There may be some twists and turns, but that's the case for most people.

Throwing the classics into the box and covering the box, Lin Mo walked out of the room, thinking about how to tempt Xiao Hei to let him clean the room, but after looking at the room full of dust, Lin Mo began to consider the price, after all, Xiao Hei has to be paid for his work, although this amount of work is only a few boxes of small dried fish, but Xiao Hei's private collection is already a lot, Lin Mo is ready to squeeze a wave, after all, his own leeks have to be cut one by one, right?

Shook his clothes, stopped going downstairs, picked up breakfast a few times and stuffed it into his mouth, Lin Mo is always a good man on days without the sun, because there is nothing to say, salted fish is also hung up when there is no sun.

But what to do after that, Lin Mo really didn't have a clue, after all, he really didn't have anything to do on a cloudy day, cleaning, that was not the work that Lin Mo went back to do, if this kind of work was done by the boss, there would be no need to raise Xiao Hei, this teahouse must have a clear hierarchy in terms of work.

A few scattered raindrops fell on the stone steps at the entrance of the teahouse, and the pedestrians on the road raised their umbrellas, and they all sped up their steps or walked or ran, escaping from this or that unobstructed place, Lin Mo sat quietly in the teahouse, looked at the sky that made people not very happy, poured the last tea in the teapot into the cup, and prepared to end today's business and return to bed as a salted fish.

But at this moment, two figures suddenly broke into Lin Mo's line of sight, to be precise, they should have run into the teahouse, this is a man and a woman, it looks like they should be a couple.

This pair of men and women are wearing the same T-shirts, the man is not tall, about 1.7 meters, with a mushroom head, fair skin, and looks like a girl, while the woman, with long hair over the shoulder, about 1.6 meters, has an average figure, but it is a very attractive type.

After the two came to the teahouse, they stood at the door and watched the raindrops falling outside the door, a little melancholy and a little anxious.

"Alas, it's all your fault, you didn't listen to me when I said to bring an umbrella, look at the rain here."

"Can you blame me for this, if you choose things quickly, you won't be blocked outside by the rain, girls are trouble."

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There is no new little couple quarreling, Lin Mo doesn't want to get involved, it's boring, Lin Mo is a little curious about those things of college students, but he is not curious enough to come forward to ask, no surprise these two people will come to talk to him, after all, there is only one living person in this teahouse, and Lin Mo can also see that the boy who looks a little bit of a mother has a bit of a ghost, and he thinks that this boy should be unlucky recently.

Lin Mo looked up in the direction of the second floor, throwing such a person into his teahouse on a rainy day was to see that he was too idle.

But the cause and effect of sending it to the door, is it a matter of care, or is it not care?